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Roxane Filion
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🧡 Birds.
South Porcupine, Timmins, ON, Canada.

Located on the traditional Lands of Mattagami First Nation, Flying Post First Nation, and Matachewan First Nation / Treaty 9: home to many Ojibway, Cree, Oji-Cree, Algonquin and Métis people.
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I wrote an article for @audubon.org about a gull I know, and it’s full of surprising facts about gulls in general. I hope you like it.

www.audubon.org/magazine/bal...
The Ballad of U10: How One Mischievous Bird Taught Me to Love Gulls Even More
After a chance beach encounter with a banded Herring Gull, cartoonist Rosemary Mosco dug deep into the surprisingly popular bird's life and adventures.
www.audubon.org
April 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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This Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) visited our yard this week in #SouthPorcupineOntario. I had never observed one in Ontario before! It really stood out from all the slate-coloured juncos! #TimminsBirds #NorthernOntarioBirds #OntarioBirds
A Dark-eyed Junco is perched on a spruce branch in Timmins, northern Ontario. Its prominent black hood, chestnut coloured flanks, and white belly indicates that it is the ‘Oregon’ form of the Dar-eyed Junco, which is more common in western North America.
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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It was a calm and quiet night for our #BirdsCanada Northern Ontario Nocturnal #OwlSurvey last night, near #TimminsOntario. The full Moon was amazing! 🌕 We did not hear any owls, but the absence of owls is still important data. What a beautiful night! #Birds @volunteer4birds.bsky.social
It's night time and the full Moon is high and bright, shining on the trees and the snow. An owl survey volunteer is wearing an orange reflective vest and is standing with his clipboard near a very high snow bank. A close up photo of the April 12 full Moon against the night sky taken during our owl survey near Timmins, in northern Ontario. The photo shows the dark blue night sky with many stars shinning bright, and a thin line of white cloud forming low along the horizon. A few conifer trees are standing apart in the foreground. This was one of our owl survey stations, near an old forestry cut, in northern Ontario. At one of our last stops during our owl survey route, the road is bordered with snow banks and tall trees, and the full Moon is still very bright behind a thin layer of clouds. A volunteer wearing a reflective vest is going to get our traffic security post on the road ahead.
April 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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volunteer4birds.bsky.social
Help us monitor and get #outdoors
I'm looking for volunteers for unassigned American Woodcock Singing-ground Survey routes in #Ontario.
Info: birdscanada.org/bird-science/american-woodcock-survey
Request a route: eepurl.com/dtJNcT
See Map (red dots): www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
#birds
Photo of a happy volunteer and a date form with text Help Monitor Timberdoodles. The American Woodcock Singing-ground Survey is looking for new surveyors for this spring. Map of central and eastern Ontario routes - red dots need volunteers Image of an American Woodcock with the text: Let’s Go Timberdoodle! Join volunteer surveyors from across #Ontario and help collect American Woodcock data. This spring #BirdsCanada is looking for a few volunteers to spend one evening counting American Woodcock peents along targetted roadside routes. To learn more, visit birdscanada.org/bird-science/american-woodcock-survey Map of southwestern Ontario routes, red dots need volunteers
April 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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The #Ontario Nocturnal Owl Survey is looking for surveyors in Northern Ontario. The surveys are conducted on a single night in April. To learn more please check out the map at www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e... and visit www.birdscanada.org/on_owls
Sound up
#birds
March 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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🦉 It’s owl survey season! 🦉Submit an owl survey in March or April for a chance to win a pair of Vortex binoculars! 🎁 Open to all skill levels – you just need to know the target species. More surveys = better chance to win! Details: tinyurl.com/3ntmwyjv #ONBirdAtlas3
March 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Nature enthusiasts braved the -32°C wind chill temperatures on Family Day at Hersey Lake Conservation Area in Timmins for MRCA's annual Winter Hiking Day! Our Great Backyard Bird Count hike was a lot of fun!! ❄️🐦 #GreatBackyardBirdCount #GBBC2025 #TimminsOntario #TimminsBirds #GBBC
On a snowy trail, a group of people dressed in warm winter clothes are looking and pointing at a Jack Pine trunk, discussing woodpecker feeding behaviour, surrounded by conifer trees with their branches heavy with snow. A Great Backyard Bird Count participant with a blue winter jacket is holding a pair of binoculars in his left hand and pointing at a Ruffed Grouse with his right hand. The grouse is perched high up in a spruce tree, almost impossible to detect. It is winter; the ground and tree branches are covered in snow. A Ruffed Grouse, all puffed up, is perched in the middle of thick snowy conifer branches. The grouse is very well camouflaged with its brown patterned plumage.
February 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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volunteer4birds.bsky.social
Today, Feb 15, is the second day of the #GreatBackyardBirdCount. Join the fun at birdcount.org see tips at https://buff.ly/40Q8fmJ
Ruby-crowned kingling, its red crown popping up like a 90 punk rocker. Text: How many birds can you find? 28th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count. February 14-17, 2025
February 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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First day of the #GreatBackyardBirdCount did not disappoint! We snowshoed a new trail near South Porcupine and saw some White-winged Crossbills and a few other species. #Birds #SouthPorcupineBirds #GBBC2025
A man is wearing a yellow winter jacket and snowshoeing up a small hill in thick snow. The bright afternoon sun is shinning through the conifer branches in the surrounding forest, casting light and shadows on the snow. Beside the man's snowshoe trail, we can see fresh tracks left by a Canada Lynx a moment earlier. In a conifer tree-top full of cones, two birds are busy feeding on the cones; one greyish-brown female, and a red male with black wings with white bars. These birds are called White-winged Crossbills and they feed on conifer cones with their unique crossed mandibles.
February 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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volunteer4birds.bsky.social
So who is participating in the Great Backyard Bird Count this weekend?
#GBBC #GreatBackYardBirdCount #BirdsCanada #familyday weekend #getoutside
A covered trail bordered by dry meadow grass. Children and adults in colourful winter clothing look for birds and loon at bird photo guides. The Birds Canada HQ is in the background.
February 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Volunteers Needed for Marsh Monitoring. Put your joy of #wetlands, #birds and #frogs to help conserve #marshes. Learn more at https://buff.ly/3hCzlrr #volunteer to monitor #birds and #frogs for #conservation
Virginia Rail spotted on a Great Lakes MMP route. Photo: Wayne Patzer Social media card showing the Great Lakes MMP logo (a rail and a frog), the Birds Canada logo and a cattail illustration. Text is Great Lakes Marsh Monitoring. Track Bird and Frog populations for Wetland Conservation A Red-winged Blackbird, a Grey Treefrog and a Spring Peeper.
February 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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First time posting here. Here's an American Three-toed Woodpecker we saw this weekend along our neighbourhood trail in South Porcupine (near Timmins, northern Ontario 🇨🇦). I love how these woodpeckers keep on foraging non-stop, no matter what goes on around them!! #SouthPorcupineBirds #OntarioBirds
An American Three-toed Woodpecker, all black with white barring on the flanks and on the back, is clinging to a black spruce trunk while flaking pieces of bark with its bill. We can see the part of the exposed trunk where bark is missing and the tiny holes where the woodpecker has foraged for wood-boring insects.
February 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM